Apparatus for making soap-bubbles.



Patented Aug. 7, I900. I G. KRAFFYT. APPARATUS FOR MAKING SOAP BUBBLES.

(Application filed Jan. 7, 1900.)-

( No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAV KRAFFT, OF SOIIWELM, GERMANY.

APPARATUS FOR MAKING SOAP-BUBBLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 555,248, dated August 7, 1900. Application filed January 17, 19Q0- Serial No. 1,762. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, GUSTAV KRAFFT, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Ostenstrasse 11, Schwelm, in the Province of Westphalia, Germany, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Making Soap-B ubbles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention has for its object a toy for children consisting of a simple apparatus for inflating soap-bubbles from soap-water which is constantly contained in the apparatus and kept therein for use, so that the apparatus may at any time allow the producing of bubbles, the filling being for a long time of use.

On the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a cross-section of the apparatus; Fig. 2, a plan thereof, partly in section.

The apparatus consists of a hollow tubular or otherwise shaped piece a, tending as a receptacle for receiving the soap-water, which is filled therein through the neck I). Said piece has more or less the shape of a bottle. It is provided with a foot 0 or base 0, formed like a ball, to contain enough soapwater. It may, however, have any other conveniently-shaped form of base, so, for instance, as shown by the dotted line d, Fig. l. The neck of the bottle is closed by a stopper 6, of any suitable material, to. prevent the water from escaping when the apparatus is held in the slanted position. The walls of the bottle are broken through, so as to allow a pipe f to be stuck through the bottle, the diameter of which is smaller than that of the bottle, so that free spaces g are left around the tube to allow the water to circulate. The lower part of the pipe f, extending from the bottle, is made comically, and in it is inserted a second conical pipe g, forming one part with pipe f and forming also a channel 72, in said pipe. This channel has connection with the bottle by a small opening *5, cut in the wall of pipe f. When blown in the pipe f, there is produced in the channel It a sucking stream of air, by which the soap-water is caused to enter the channel 71., where it is driven to theorifice of the pipe in a fine spray and inflated at the end thereof to a bubble, as seen in Fig. 1.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- As an article of manufacture, an apparatus for producing soap-bubbles consisting of a bottle a of any shape and size which is closed by a stopper and filled with soap-water said bottle being crossed by a pipe 1 its downward-extending piece being pointed and having inserted therein a second pipe to form a channel within pipe f which has connection with the bottle for the purpose described and set forth.

GUSTAV KRAFFT. Witnesses:

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